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 Post subject: [2012-05-22] Joey Ramone "Ya Know" (BMG Rights Management) - 2nd solo album!!!!
PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:05 am 
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2012 release, the second posthumous solo album from the former Ramones frontman. Ya Know? adds a significant new chapter to the seminal punk icon's hugely influential body of work. The tracks were drawn from a cache of demos and unreleased recordings that Joey had a cut at various times during the last decade and half of his life. But this is no half-baked grab-bag of odds and ends. It's a riveting collection of previously unheard songs that embody Joey's trademark intensity, wit and infectious hooksmanship, and that will stand proudly alongside his most beloved Ramones compositions. The cast of guest players includes Joan Jett, who lends her distinctive voice and guitar to "21st Century Girl" and Little Steven Van Zandt, who plays guitar on "Party Line" and wrote the album's poignant liner notes, along with such notables as former Ramones drummer Richie Ramone, Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick, Dennis Diken of the Smithereens, Richie Vincent, seasoned New York punk axeman Al Maddy, veteran pop producer/musician Kenny Laguna, saxophonist Arno Hecht of the Uptown Horns, and members of the Ramones' punk-era contemporaries The Dictators.

Track Listings
1. Rock 'N Roll Is The Answer
2. Going Nowhere Fast
3. New York City
4. Waiting For That Railroad
5. I Couldn't Sleep
6. What Did I Do To Deserve You?
7. Seven Days Of Gloom
8. Eyes Of Green
9. Party Line
10. Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
11. 21st Century Girl
12. There's Got To Be More To Life
13. Make Me Tremble
14. Cabin Fever
15. Life's A Gas

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Joey Ramone's (posthumous) 2nd album!!!!

Information and tracklisting is here.......
http://kauhajokinyt.fi/~jplaitio/gigs/j ... aknow.html
(The site says on top not to use material w/o permission, so I'm just giving the link)

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 Post subject: [2012-05-22] Joey Ramone "Ya Know" (BMG Rights Management) - 2nd solo album!!!!
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:30 am 
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New Joey Ramone Solo Album
"...ya know?" To Bow May 22

Limited Edition 7" Single "Rock'n'Roll Is The Answer"
To Be Released For Record Store Day on April 21


On May 22, Joey Ramone’s second solo album, “…ya know?” will be released (BMG Rights Management), eleven years after his life was cruelly cut short by lymphoma. The tracks were drawn from a cache of demos and unreleased recordings that Joey had cut at various times during the last decade and a half of his life.

His brother, musician Mickey Leigh, executive produced the project. "It was of the utmost importance to me that these remaining songs of Joey's be finished properly, and made available for the world to hear," Leigh says of “…ya know?”, which is comprised primarily of never-before-heard songs written and sung by his brother.

But this is no half-baked grab-bag of odds and ends. Rather, it's a riveting collection of first-rate songs that embody Joey's trademark intensity and wit, and that can stand proudly alongside his most beloved Ramones compositions. It's also a fitting, if belated, follow-up to Joey's first solo album Don't Worry About Me, which was recorded just prior to his death and released the following year.

“...ya know?” - whose title refers to the phrase that was a ubiquitous staple of Joey's conversation - adds a significant new chapter to the seminal punk icon's hugely influential body of work.

Among the many talented people Mickey Leigh and Joey's manager Dave Frey reached out to in bringing “...ya know?” to fruition was veteran producer Ed Stasium, who was behind the board for many of the Ramones' greatest albums, including their early classics Leave Home, Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin.

In addition to producing ten of the album’s fifteen tracks, Stasium also contributed instrumentation and vocals to each.
The swaggering album-opener "Rock 'n' Roll Is the Answer" (co-written with Plasmatics guitarist Richie Stotts) will be released as a limited-edition 7” single for Record Store Day on April 21, 2012.

That song and the hometown shout-out "New York City" demonstrate Joey's knack for channeling his personal passions into bracing anthems. The playfully breezy "Make Me Tremble" (which Joey wrote and recorded with Dictators founder Andy Shernoff) and the bittersweet acoustic ballad "Waiting for That Railroad" find him exploring some of the more introspective territory that he'd been unable to visit within the format of his former band.

Elsewhere on “...ya know?”, "I Couldn't Sleep" is a collaboration between brothers Joey and Mickey, who also teamed up to record a romantic alternate version of the Ramones' holiday classic "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)" in Joey's apartment. Meanwhile, a previously unreleased reprise of Joey's late-period Ramones tune "Life's A Gas" ends the album on an appropriately uplifting note.

Also contributing to “…ya know?” is an assortment of musicians and producers whose prior relationships with Joey help to give the album an organic vibe that enhances its power and character. The cast of players includes Joan Jett, and Little Steven Van Zandt, who plays guitar on "Party Line" and wrote the album's poignant liner notes, along with such notables as former Ramones drummer Richie Ramone, Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick, Dennis Diken of the Smithereens, Richie Stotts, Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye, punk survivor Holly Beth Vincent, members of the Ramones' punk-era contemporaries The Dictators, and producers Jean Beauvoir and Joe Blaney.

The resulting album is a brilliant encapsulation of the qualities that made Joey Ramone one of rock's most unlikely, yet most beloved, heroes.

Leigh reflects “Over the past eight years I've been getting barrages of emails and Facebook messages from Joey's fans, wanting to know when this album would be coming out. So having it finally become a reality gives me a feeling of triumph - not for me, but for my brother, and for his fans. And there's not the slightest doubt in my mind that people are gonna be blown away by it."

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 Post subject: [2012-05-22] Joey Ramone "Ya Know" (BMG Rights Management) - 2nd solo album!!!!
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:20 pm 
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:30 pm 
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But this is no half-baked grab-bag of odds and ends. Rather, it's a riveting collection of first-rate songs that embody Joey's trademark intensity and wit, and that can stand proudly alongside his most beloved Ramones compositions. It's also a fitting, if belated, follow-up to Joey's first solo album Don't Worry About Me, which was recorded just prior to his death and released the following year.


I'm going to hope that this is the case, but really, what else would you expect them to say? I'm pretty sure that no one would buy this if it was described as " a bunch of odds and ends that we found laying around and decided to try to do something with before everyone forgot who Joey Ramone was." I'll hope for the best, but I won't count on it.

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 Post subject: [2012-05-22] Joey Ramone "Ya Know" (BMG Rights Management) - 2nd solo album!!!!
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It might be the case.....but when it comes to The Ramones, I have almost everything, so I would buy this even if it was odds & ends.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:02 pm 
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It might be the case.....but when it comes to The Ramones, I have almost everything, so I would buy this even if it was odds & ends.


Oh agreed...absolutely. I'm just not sure that the material will support what sounds like a bit of hyperbole. We'll see.

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 Post subject: [2012-05-22] Joey Ramone "Ya Know" (BMG Rights Management) - 2nd solo album!!!!
PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 4:29 pm 
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Amazon has an order page up

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007R3B4RG/?tag=imwan-20

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 Post subject: [2012-05-22] Joey Ramone "Ya Know" (BMG Rights Management) - 2nd solo album!!!!
PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2012 3:38 pm 
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Album cover, description, and tracklist are on the top post.

Just got an e-mail from Amazon saying mine shipped!!!!

Order yours now.....
This is going to be one of the top albums of the year!!!!!! :yay: :ohyes:

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 Post subject: [2012-05-22] Joey Ramone "Ya Know" (BMG Rights Management) - 2nd solo album!!!!
PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 10:28 am 
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I just finished listening to this....and think it's a really good album.

Most of the songs are great.....and it doesn't have that half-baked/odds and ends feel (maybe only Cabin Fever).

Productionwise, these feel like full songs....and Joey's voice is clear in the mix......(unlike, say Free As A Bird/Real Love where it's the others playimg over John's lousy sounding demo).

If you were on the fence about this, pick it up.

Here's the opening track.....I love it


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